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Kirkus Reviews
16.10.2025
In Breen’s murder mystery, one of the critics selected for a wine-tasting event turns up dead.
An artist illustrates Black life.
Five wolves create and discuss art during their adventures in this stream-of-consciousness narrative.
A 17-year-old guardian of the memories of recently deceased young people questions her purpose in the latest from National Book Award finalist McBride.
Slade’s thriller offers a meditation on the perils of combining technology, capitalism, and faith.
The Polynesian islands in the South Pacific are transformed by this historical epic into a region at once otherworldly and recognizable.
A man wanders the East searching for experience, enlightenment, and good hash in this luminous memoir.
In the vein of their Plague-Busters! (2023), Fitzharris and Teal round up wild examples of medical trial and error.
In Woodford’s novel, a recently fired philosophy professor and her farmhand neighbor form an unexpected bond during a cross-country road trip.
A child grapples with the strange largeness of grief.
In Price’s YA SF novel, a boarding school student in a near-future of self-driving vehicles and computer automation learns that AIs are plotting against humanity.
Two sisters discover a startling manuscript in their late mother’s house that has devastating ties to their present in Blanchard’s thriller.
A painter struggles to reconcile identity, money, art, love, and sex.
How jazz found a new audience in the Berkshires.
Black’s hardboiled detective novel, part of his Erica Banks series, features a contract killer and a baseball-fixing scandal.
A celebration of a supremely accomplished writing life, with a few lumps along the way.
Okine lampoons American Thanksgiving traditions one state at a time in this work of cultural commentary.
15.10.2025
Old friends return with new wards in this beloved series.
Influencers of a different kind.
One geographic pole, two competing polar narratives.
In Levy’s darkly comic novel, a depraved man at the end of his rope stumbles upon a secret society that allows him to travel through alternate dimensions.
Set on the Greek island of Chios, Serafim’s noir mystery explores the European migrant crisis through the eyes of a world-weary but tenacious police inspector.
“King of Detectives” Max Spitzkopf stars in this lively collection of rare early-20th-century detective stories, translated from the Yiddish.
Parrish’s scrapbook collection of stories, still life photos, and diaristic drawings depict an artistic mind in motion.
Colin Ong doesn’t like his best friend Ren Hsu’s new boyfriend.
An alien intelligence invades the body of a virtual-pornography performer in Klarxon’s body-horror novel.
Teenage survivors in a world ravaged by electromagnetic dragons dubbed the blitz split up for separate missions in this sequel to The Shadow Road (2024).
Honeybees get most of the attention but make up only a small fraction of the number of bee species on our planet; a salute to the rest is in order.
A duo of French mathematicians makes the scientific case for God in this nonfiction book.
Vertically oriented pictures presented in a long rectangular volume hint at just how high the sky goes.
Between friends, classes, soccer, and founding a new after-school club, Frost Middle School student Zoe starts to feel the pressure of biting off more than she can chew.
How better to celebrate the holidays than by taking in a homeless dog and solving multiple murders?
A poor girl sneaks onto a dating show in hopes of winning a cash prize.
Sierra chronicles his career and life, including a harrowing struggle with Covid-19.
Bravery and hope fuel this timely climate-fiction fantasy.
A girl is suddenly dropped into an internet romance novel in this translated work from South Korea, which was originally published online.
A select but globe-spanning tour of islands large and small, with particular focus on distinctive wildlife and natural features.
14.10.2025
A middle-aged woman frustrated with her life learns that change isn’t always good in Somers’ whimsical time-travel tale.
Patterson’s latest co-authored thriller follows an enterprising brother-and-sister team who are determined to steal a recently discovered Picasso painting from the Echelon auction house and replace it with a forgery.
Cooper offers a memoir of successfully pursuing passions.